Transport Planner

**Job description**

**Location**:
Tamworth, Staffordshire, England

**Type**:
Permanent,

**Specialty**:
Warehouse and Logistics,

**Ref**:
TP151123

**Posted**:
15/11/2023

Gap Personnel (operating as an employment business) are currently recruiting for our client in Tamworth, Staffordshire for a Transport Planner

Hours of work:
Monday - Friday

Usually 10:00 - 18:30

Flexibility required between the hours of 06:00 - 19:00

Pay

£26k - £28k per annum

Description and key responsibilities as a Transport Planner:
This is a full-time on-site role for a Transport Planner.
- Day-to-day tasks in transportation planning and operations management to ensure the efficient movement of goods.
- Planning deliveries and collections within our postcode areas which include 30 of the B, CV, WS areas
- Managing 10-12 pallet line drivers daily
- Daily communications with depots/hubs as well as customers ensuring POD's/deliveries and collections are on time.
- Briefs and de briefs to both drivers and warehouse staff ensuring all freight is loaded and delivered as well as a key eye for H&S.

Qualifications and skills required as a Transport Planner:

- Transportation Planning, Transport Modelling, and Transportation Management skills
- Experience in Pallet network operations.
- Excellent communication skills to liaise with customers, depots & hubs.
- Experience with geographical postcodes and planning.

What we give you:

- Continuous recruitment support
- Guidance on CV and interview skills

If this role is permanent, gap personnel is operating as the employment agency. If this job is a temporary role, gap personnel is operating as the employment business. gap personnel is committed to the selection, recruitment and development of the best people, basing judgements solely on suitability for the job